By 10 months of age, Alan has a vocabulary of a dozen words. B. F. Skinner would have attributed Alan's rapid speech development mainly to his
unusually high I.Q.
unusual language-acquisition talent.
parents' talking to him frequently.
rapid physical development.
Question 2Which of the following positively correlates with early onset of the naming explosion?
the mother's temperament
the mother's responsiveness to the child's language
the cultural expectations of language ability in children
the child's temperament
Question 3The use of prefixes, suffixes, intonation, verb forms, pronouns, and other parts of speech are all parts of
grammar.
sentence structure.
speech patterns.
syntax.
Question 4The theorist who believed that children learn language when they are reinforced by parental attention was
Jean Piaget.
B. F. Skinner.
Noam Chomsky.
Lev Vygotsky.
Question 5Learning adjectives is easiest in which languages?
English; Spanish
French; Italian
Italian; Spanish
English; French
Question 6Which of the following is one of the explanations offered in your text as to why Englishspeaking children use more nouns than verbs when they begin to speak, as compared to children of Chinese or Korean descent?
Chinese and Korean languages are noun-friendly languages because the
rules of the languages are structured around nouns.
The English language contains more nouns than verbs; Korean and Chinese
languages contain more verbs than nouns.
Chinese and Korean children tend to have more limited access to toys than
do English-speaking children.
Interactions between children and objects are more common in Englishspeaking
cultures, while social interactions are more common in Asian
cultures.
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